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2009/02/02

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Chop soft vegies and fruits into baby food with a pastry blender

Jesse's hack makes quick work of batch chopping cooked vegetables for baby food:

My girlfriend and I have been preparing our little one's food from local organic produce wherever possible, steaming, Cuisinart-ing, and freezing in ice cube trays for later use. It's been a great system, but the little mini-Cuisinart that we've been using isn't conducive to doing large batches of food.

As he's getting bigger (11 months now) and growing teeth, he doesn't really need his food pureed as before, so last week I stumbled on a hack. Turns out that a pastry blender (aka dough cutter, pastry mixer, etc.) is perfect for coarsely chopping up large batches of any reasonably soft foods (carrots, squash, etc).

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DIY custom coloring books with Google's image search for line drawings

Daniel just pointed out that you can specify "line drawings" while searching Google for images (here's an example). He suggested this as a way to build your own custom coloring books. So smart! Now I can indulge my daughter's Obama obsession! (Ever since the election, she's been coloring over every one of his pictures in the newspaper.)